Crusade in Europe.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

Item Number: 32015

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948.

Signed limited first edition. Thick octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt, original acetate. Signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, number 1044 of 1426 copies. Additionally inscribed by the author, “For Miss Margaret Hayes—who voluntarily devoted so many spare hours to helping me in collecting and preparing notes for this book—with appreciation of loyal and efficient service, and with lasting regard from her friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” The recipient Margaret Hayes, was the private secretary to President Eisenhower who helped research and contribute to this volume. Fine in the original slipcase in near fine condition with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional unique association copy.

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this eventful period of U.S. history have become the single most important record of the war. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned and lived it. Through his eyes, the enormous scope and drama of the war―strategy, battles, moments of fateful decision―become fully illuminated in all their fateful glory. "Eisenhower gives the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life" (New York Times).